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Christmas decorations are already up at the Miller house in Glastonbury as QVC, the popular TV shopping network, shoots footage that will air during the holiday shopping season. On Friday, the cameras focused on several novelty items designed by Garold Miller: a suction cup that secures holiday candles to the window and a reusable, silicone tie that fastens garlands to the banister. These items are only part of the Miller repertoire. Jewelry is his main business, and QVC markets his line of necklaces, earrings and bracelets under his name on both its website and on television. Miller's sales run between $2 million and $4 million a year — not bad for someone who got a...

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